The Division of Labor in Society: Deep Review

Original academic guide to The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim.

• Academic Classics
• 33 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Durkheim's foundational account of specialization, solidarity, law, moral order, modern complexity, social cohesion, and the pathologies of division.

Why it's worth a listen

Use Durkheim to explain why modern people can be more interdependent and more lonely at once, and why economics alone cannot explain social order.

Based on the book by Emile Durkheim, published by Public domain classic

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Historical and Intellectual Context of 1893
3. The Central Argument: Solidarity as the Invisible Glue
4. Mechanical Solidarity and Repressive Law
5. Organic Solidarity and Restitutive Law
6. The Non-Contractual Basis of Contract
7. Pathologies of Modernity: Anomie and the Forced Division of Labor
8. What Makes Durkheim’s Analysis Brilliant
9. Limitations, Blind Spots, and Dated Concepts
10. How to Read This Book and Who Needs It Today